When Miguel Angel Rodriguez left the Hollywood Video store in East Greenbush, NY on Friday, he had more than just his 2-year-old step-daughter inside the stroller.
Apparently Rodriguez loaded the stroller with more than $1,000 worth of video games and tried to walk out of the store. A store employee called police and followed Rodriguez (and stroller) into Wal-Mart, where he tried to blend in with the crowd. The employee was dogged, however, and kept an eye on the perp until police arrived.
"Step-dad of the Year" Rodriguez was charged with attempted grand larceny and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
I must admit that I have had to be reminded on more than one occasion to pay for certain items in the basket of my stroller, having completely forgotten that I put them in there while dealing with the joy that is a screaming, poopy, cranky, tired, hungry baby. (And always while paying for items that were actually within my sight, like clothes hanging from the stroller handles or a potty seat precariously balanced across said handles.)
But $1,000 worth of video games? That's a lot to forget.
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